Disturbance Observer Based Robust Sliding Mode Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor

This paper addresses speed control of permanent magnet synchronous motor under load torque perturbations. The mathematical model is derived using park’s transformation. The load torque disturbance is considered unknown bounded, and states variables are available in feedback. In order to achieve robust speed performance, sliding mode control (SMC) is introduced. However, it is noted that conventional SMC does not provide satisfactory performance under load torque disturbances. To end this, a novel control strategy called disturbance observer SMC (DOSMC) is formulated. It includes an observer that offers a tool to vanish the effect of load torque. The DOSMC technique has two distinguished characteristics: first, the design gains are needed to be greater than the maximum limit of disturbance estimation error instead of disturbances, second; the proposed observer estimates load disturbances and provide a compensator to update sliding surface and control input. The stability analysis of overall control system is verified using Lyapunov theorem. Simulations in MATLAB/Simulink proves efficacy of the proposed scheme.